* Astronomy

Title: Evidence of shock-metamorphic effects in the Ergheo meteorite
Authors: B. BALDANZA AND G. R. LEVI-DONATI

IN July I889 a meteorite was seen to fall in Ergheo, Brava, Somaliland (approx. 1° 10'N., 44° 10'E.). The meteorite, a stone of about 20 kg, remained for five years lying in the ground and only in I898 was it first described (Artini and Melzi, I898a, b; with an incomplete analysis by Boeris). Some years later the stone was sawn and the fragments were distributed to museums and collections

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